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NAIA, small colleges association, approves ban on trans athletes from women’s sports [Video]

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Monday it will ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports.

The national small-college organization’s Council of Presidents approved in a 20-0 vote a policy that only students who were assigned the female gender at birth could compete in women’s sports. The new policy also blocks transgender women or nonbinary students who are receiving masculinizing hormone therapy.

“We know there are a lot of different opinions out there,” NAIA President Jim Carr told CBS Sports‘ Dennis Dodd. “For us, we believed our first responsibility was to create fairness and competition in the NAIA.”

He said the NAIA also believes its new policy aligns with the reasons Title IX was created.

“You’re allowed to have separate but equal opportunities for women to compete,” Carr said.

He told CBS Sports that all NAIA athletes who are no longer eligible for women’s competition could still participate in men’s sports.

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The protests over the war in Gaza that have gripped college campuses across the U.S. came to a head Tuesday night as violent clashes erupted between pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters at UCLA and police moved to arrest dozens of demonstrators who occupied a building at Columbia University. CBS News' Carter Evans and Lilia Luciano have the latest on the protests. And CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more on the police response to the protests and the alleged presence of outside agitators at the demonstrations.

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